Politics Quote by Walter J. Ong

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

“The great works of culture have it in their power to clear mental confusion, they give us words for things we had felt but…

— The School of Life

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson

“Thus we swallow politics with every meal. We take a mouthful and read a telegram, one eye on table, the other on the paper.…

— George W. Cable

“The repetitions, meaningless expressions, stammers, and nonsensical monosyllables with which we express hesitation, along with the clichés and banalities that constitute so much of…

— Francine Prose

“We are more politically fanatical than ever before, more religiously zealous, more rigid in our thinking, less capable of empathy. We are completely avoiding…

— Nathan Hill

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“How carelessly we used words, thoughtless of the trail of slime and sludge they left behind. Mouth, tongue, teeth, all sullied with the rot…

— Faiqa Mansab

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds,…

— Madame de Stael

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the…

— George Orwell